"The Nature of Love"

While we continued our journey along Godsway 66 with the Jewish wisdom literature during Lent, we also considered "The Nature of Love" during Wednesday evening services and Holy Week.  (Happily, this is also a theme in some of the wisdom literature, especially the Song of Solomon and many Psalms.)

Here, in one place, you can listen to all of the meditations from this series, lasting from Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday.

The titles were all inspired by the description of love written by Paul in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8:
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.  It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in truth.  It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never ends.

• "Love is patient" (Ash Wednesday); Scripture: Matthew 18:15-22
• "Love is kind"; Scripture: Luke 6:35-38
• "Love is not envious or boastful"; Scripture: James 3:13-18
• "Love is not arrogant or proud"; Scripture: Romans 12:14-21
• "Love does not insist on its own way"; Scripture: John 21:15-19
• "Love is not irritable or resentful"; Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:13-20
• "Love does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in truth" (Palm Sunday); Scripture: Matthew 21:1-11
• "Love bears all things, believes all things" (Maundy Thursday); Scripture: Matthew 26:6-13
• "Love hopes all things, endures all things" (Easter Vigil); Scripture: Luke 17:11-19
• "Love never ends" (Easter); Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4-8